Stories of fire and light; stories of hot pursuit and endless patience.
Let enthralling storytelling and exquisite music take you deep into the earth and to the
World-Beyond-The World.

For this show Deb weaves her words with the powerful, intuitive music of Tinc Y Tannau
(Sianed Jones & Ailsa Mair Hughes, bass viols and voices)
to draw you into the woods and out onto the wild waves of your imagination.

Next Storytelling-Related Workshop

Improv Day ​: ​The Wild Word-Surfers Workshop

A friendly ‘Improv’ workshop - games and exercises involving verbal improvisation -
making stuff up is the name of the game. Flights of fancy, ludicrous claims, entertaining lies, strange
stories and daft ideas. Surprise yourself with your own inventiveness and spontaneous effusions. Not to
mention volcanic eruptions of creativity.

Useful for developing your spontaneous speaking skills, verbal inventiveness and ‘thinking on your
feet’, but also just great fun.

Great for embryonic storytellers who’d like to experiment with spontaneous storytelling and improvisation
in a friendly, supportive group of fellow over-50’s learners.

Good for any over-50’s who relish using their grey cells; enjoy lively young-minded company;
and who are not too old to play!

If you’ve done Improv before you’ll know it is challenging and fun - if you haven’t - come
and try something new with a really friendly tutor.

Susan Richardson
is a poet and performer whose fourth collection of poetry, Words the Turtle Taught Me,
has just been published by Cinnamon Press. Themed around endangered marine species, it evolved from her
recent residency with the Marine Conservation Society. Her previous three
collections include Creatures of the Intertidal Zone (2007), inspired by
her own, and others’, journeys through the increasingly fragile Arctic environment, and
skindancing (2015) which explores human-animal metamorphosis and our
intimacy with, and alienation from, the wild and our animal selves.

Susan has performed her work at festivals from Hay to Adelaide, on Radio 4 while
enjoying a four-year stint as one of the poet-performers on Saturday Live, and
on BBC2 to complement their coverage of the
Chelsea
Flower Show
. She is currently poet-in-residence with both the global animal welfare initiative,
World Animal Day, and the
British Animal Studies
Network
.

​Storyteller Deb Winter, who worked for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth,
BTCV and the Environmental Trainers Network in another life, has created a number of
‘green-themed’ shows with The Magic of Green, The Green Phoenix, Call of the Wild,
the Company of Birds.

​Deb is an engaging and popular storyteller and has performed at Cheltenham Science Festival, Bristol
Storyfest, Swansea Fringe, Tenby Arts, End of the Road and Priddy Folk Festival and well as locally for
Fforest, Transition Bro Gwaun, the National Trust at Stackpole.
Deb hosts Straeon Gwaun/Fishguard Storytelling at Peppers and has brought some of Wales’ top
storytellers to Fishguard.

In ‘Fins & Skins’, poet and storyteller are united by a deep love for the ocean​.

What is going bump in the night? Who comes in out of the mist?
Mysteries and mischief from a playful teller of traditional tales.

For adults rather than children (11+ is fine)

Deb Winter has delighted audiences across Wales and the South West with her mixture of energetically told
folk tales and original stories. She won the ‘Storyteller of the Year’ award at Bristol Story Slam 2015,
taking home the coveted ‘Yarnspinner’ trophy, and her shows in 2016 & 2017 Bristol Storyfest were
sold out. A popular teller on the Story Club circuit and at festivals, Deb lives locally and hosts
‘Fishguard Story Nights/Straeon Gwaun’.

Friday, October 21st 2016 at 19:30 at Pontardawe Arts Centre

Delyth Jenkins, Deborah Winter and Prue Thimbleby bring you a special show commissioned by the 2016 Gwanwyn Festival: an Evening of storytelling and Celtic harp.

The Silver Wheel

A story of love, loss and transformation. Join Deb and Delyth on a magical journey to the stars.

Threads of Fate

The ancient goddesses of destiny have been spinning and weaving the threads of our lives for century after century. But new hands take hold of the thread - with strange consequences……

The Secret of Contentment by Prue Thimbleby

Two stories woven together with autobiography and an interactive demonstration of rope making.

The Magic of Green

Trysts & Promises

Wednesday, July 27th 2016 at Tregwynt Mansion, Haverfordwest

A tryst in a medieval orchard; a journey into forbidden lands; love, redemption and sacrifice.

Travel back in time with storyteller Deb Winter and musician Fiona Barrow (fiddle, harp, accordian) and meet a dark lord and a fair lady. Pass some time with us at the inn with a mysterious stranger. But be very careful what you say to him…words are dangerous things…………

Music: Fiona Barrow is a professional violinist who trained classically and also followed a love of traditional music, playing on the west coast of Ireland for 2 years, and also made a living as a street musician travelling across Europe as a solo act and with various outfits including Tragic Roundabout, Fiasco di Casino, and Swervy World theatre.

She toured with the Doppelganger gypsy orchestra playing at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Skopje Festival in Macedonia and Tuzla in Bosnia. She played a sell-out run on Broadway with Travelling Lights award- winning show ‘Into The West’ and completed several tours with Kneehigh theatre including ‘Tristan and Yseult’ at Sydney festival, Australia, Wellington festival, New Zealand and Spoleto festival in South Carolina. She also toured for 5 years with singer Eve Loiseau in the hit show ‘Piaf -the Songs’.

Fiona has composed and performed for storytelling for many years. She was musician in residence in Somerset for a year with storyteller Jane Flood, and toured the sell-out show ‘Peter and the Wolf’ with Martin Maudsley, appearing Beyond the Border, Bath Fringe and Sage, Gateshead.

Saturday, December 12th 2015 at West Wales Art Gallery

Peppers Café will be open beforehand and afterwards for lunches, coffee and cake etc.

Tickets: On the door £5

Chilly Tales for a winter's day from two warm and witty West Wales Storytellers.

Original songs and music from the mischievous Milly to thaw and chill you by turn.

Bring your hat and gloves and chill out with us at the West Wales Art gallery (upstairs, above Peppers).

Call of the Wild

Tuesday, October 27th – Swansea Storytelling Night

Venue: The No Sign Wine Bar, Wind Street, Swansea.

Time: 8:00pm

Take a walk on the wild side with stories as old as the forest and as strange as love.

The Strange Dance

Friday, August 14th – Tregwynt Mansion (Near St. Nicholas) SA62 5UU

Storyteller: Deborah Winter Music: Delyth Jenkins

Time: 7:30pm

Tickets: £5 Available from Seaways Bookshop, Fishguard and on the door (bar licence).

An enchanting evening as harpist Delyth Jenkins and storyteller Deborah Winter weave their magic together to transport you into other realms.

Delyth, described in Taplas as ‘one of Wales’s most accomplished and compelling Celtic harpists’ beguiles audiences with a seductive range of musical emotions, from sparkling enthusiasm to a hypnotic serenity and tenderness. This range is mirrored in Deborah’s energetic storytelling, which can rollercoaster from the sorrows of the human heart to irrepressible humour in a moment.

‘The Strange Dance’ is an imaginative retelling of some intriguing traditional stories wrapped around with the multi-coloured tapestry of Delyth’s music. Dare you put on your Red Shoes and be transported into the world of faery? It is not always easy to come back….

Join Deborah and Delyth for a journey of the imagination in the lovely setting of Tregwynt Mansion’s Ballroom. (Suitable for 12+)

10th - 12th July 2015

Family Storytelling On The Beach

Saturday, 4th July 2015

Storyteller: Deb Winter Pirate Crew: Becca & Katie Douthwaite

Venue: Barafundle Bay

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

National Trust Free Event

STORIES BY THE SEA Come and hear about the strange creatures that live under the sea and the ghostly galleon crewed by pirates. 11 - 11.45. Repeated 12 - 12.45. Stories from Deb Winter 1-3pm. Making up Stories together.

Call of The Wild

An Afternoon of Story & Song

Saturday, June 13th at Peppers Café in Fishguard.

Storyteller: Deb Winter Music: Rosie Sleightholme

Venue: Peppers, 16 West St, Fishguard. SA65 9AE.

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Peppers Café will be open beforehand and afterwards for lunches, coffee and cake etc.

Tickets: On the door £6

Join singer Rosie Sleightholme (“Utterly wonderful stuff” - BBC Radio Wales) and storyteller Deb Winter (“Storyteller of the Year” - Bristol Storyfest 2015) as they weave a blend of original and traditional songs and stories, taking you on a magical journey into forbidden forests, wild seashores and strange lands.

Storytelling

Let me tell you a story……

"Once Upon A Time there was a Storyteller so entertaining and enthralling that
whole audiences fell off their seats laughing or fell silent with amazement and
never spoke again……"

Well, ok, that's an exaggeration but audiences do get totally absorbed in my
stories - sometimes it's so quiet you could hear a mouse scratching its
ear; at other times there is much chuckling and guffawing.

I like to take traditional stories and give them a tweak or a twist. I like to touch
the heart or tickle your laughter organ.

I love words: powerful, juicy, voluptuous, fiery, sensuous and comical words. Words
that will draw you into the deep dark forest or into the scented Arabian night.
Words that will keep you in the story until the demon is defeated or the poor man
finds his princess.

Stories For Children

Entertaining, interactive Story Workshops for schools or children's groups.
Designed to encourage creativity and confidence and widen vocabulary.

Children gain fluency with words and greater powers of description. Sessions can
be themed to fit your curriculum.

Storytelling makes stories fun and exciting, encouraging children to read more and
make up their own stories.

Stories For
Adults

Fairy Tales with a twist; myths and legends; folk tales from around the world; wonder
tales and strange adventures. Humorous, action-packed, magical, moving, mysterious
or surprising.

You can book me for Festivals, Ceremonies, Public or Private Functions, Medieval
Fayres and Banquets; after-dinner entertainment or to enhance any occasion you choose.

Storytelling Workshops

If you'd like to be a Storyteller, or simply gain confidence about speaking
in front of an audience, this course is for you.

Videos of Deborah Storytelling

Comments from attendees

“Thank you so much for such a superb performance and teaching slot yesterday.
Everyone did so enjoy it. I felt so inspired that I have been musing over three
different stories, pacing back and forth in my mind trying to find a wordpath to
the journey I am on.”